Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Design, build, and operate cloud-native AI infrastructure and platform services to support model development, training, evaluation, and inference. Implement IaC and automation, enable ML/LLM production deployments within governed enterprise environments, build observability and monitoring, collaborate with security and cross-functional partners, and support on-call/operational duties.

Manage a team of machine learning engineers developing credit and lending models for international markets. Set technical strategy, guide advanced ML solutions, partner with product, engineering, analytics, design, and risk teams, and ensure scalable underwriting capabilities. Provide hands-on technical leadership, clarify complex problems, manage trade-offs, and mentor engineers while contributing to Affirm’s long-term machine learning strategy.

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Leads analog engineering for custom mixed-signal ASICs, designing and verifying circuit blocks from specification through production. Provides technical leadership, drives layout and methodology, coordinates with digital, DFT, verification, test, and product teams, and supports silicon debugging and characterization. Mentors engineers, translates customer requirements into designs, ensures delivery under tight schedules, and maintains principal-level technical involvement. Occasional international travel is required.

Manage electrical engineering design across multidisciplinary infrastructure projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant and contractor performance, and stakeholder coordination. Ensure designs are compliant, innovative, sustainable, maintainable, and buildable while integrating civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical disciplines. Support contract management, risk and scope changes, regulatory requirements, and health, safety, and environmental considerations throughout the asset lifecycle.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Lead customer development and account growth for Plexus engineering services. Responsibilities include acquiring new customers, expanding existing relationships, winning profitable engineering engagements, serving as a trusted advisor, gathering customer and market insights, influencing service offerings, and guiding internal go-to-market partners through strategic sales opportunities. The role requires close collaboration with engineering, operations, business development, and regional teams, with travel exceeding 40%.

Embedded Software Engineering Intern supporting software design, coding, debugging, testing, driver development, RTOS tasks, design reviews, and hardware bring-up. The role involves collaborating with hardware, mechanical, and design assurance engineers to deliver integrated products using bare-metal embedded C/C++ on client projects.

Manage multidisciplinary engineering design across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant performance, stakeholder coordination, and integration across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical disciplines. Ensure solutions are compliant, sustainable, buildable, maintainable, and aligned with client, operational, regulatory, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Provides strategic and technical leadership for ports and maritime engineering capabilities across civil, structural, geotechnical, seismic, and maritime disciplines. Leads technical governance, assurance, multidisciplinary delivery, stakeholder engagement, and major programme support across the full project lifecycle. Advises clients, coordinates scope, schedule, budget, resources, and risk, while mentoring engineers and developing team capability. Requires chartered engineering status, extensive civil and structural design experience, maritime infrastructure expertise, advanced structural analysis knowledge, and senior project delivery experience.

Leads the People Technology product and engineering portfolio, translating workforce strategy and stakeholder needs into digital products and experiences. Owns demand intake, roadmaps, prioritization, product management, engineering capacity, testing, delivery, adoption, and value realization. Builds multidisciplinary product and engineering capabilities and delivers AI-enabled solutions using Oracle, Microsoft 365, Copilot, automation, integrations, and related technologies. Partners with platform, technology, risk, and colleague experience teams to ensure secure, scalable, accessible, and outcome-focused delivery.

Leads software quality engineering and validation for eCOA clinical trial projects. Establishes quality standards, testing processes, automation strategies, KPIs, and validation procedures. Manages internal and offshore QA teams, vendors, resources, project risks, audits, CAPAs, and department operations. Oversees tools including JIRA, Git, and Jama while partnering with managers, HR, technology teams, and service providers to improve efficiency, testing coverage, compliance, and delivery timelines.

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a software engineering team, managing sprint planning and delivery, maintaining engineering quality standards, mentoring engineers, identifying risks, and partnering with Product, Design, and the Director of Engineering. This player-coach role requires technical leadership, experience with Bubble.io or low-code platforms, agile delivery expertise, and support for hiring and onboarding as the company grows.

Conduct an individual doctoral research project in phase-change heat transfer within the SurPhase network. Responsibilities include designing and analyzing experimental, computational, or data-driven research; publishing findings; maintaining reproducible research records; contributing to project deliverables; collaborating with academic and industrial partners; attending training and conferences; undertaking international secondments; and completing doctoral degree requirements.

Develop, debug, test, and optimize machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, numerical methods, and supporting infrastructure. Build reproducible Python workflows, diagnose computational issues, validate implementations, use coding agents, and document technical findings. This remote role requires approximately 15 hours per week and rapid task availability.

Lead a small team developing secure, reliable agentic AI capabilities. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, building agent monitoring, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks, performing machine learning tasks, translating research into production features, mentoring engineers, and contributing hands-on code and technical designs. The role focuses on agent collaboration, trust, security, quality measurement, and scalable software delivery.

Build and own automated testing frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, load and stress testing, and chaos engineering practices for a brokerage platform. Write primarily Go, integrate AI and LLM tooling into quality workflows, investigate application and Kubernetes failures, improve developer tooling, and mentor engineers on reliability and test coverage.

Leads railway engineering, ERTMS, and digital systems teams; establishes fleet engineering capabilities for RDG, DFTO, and GBR; develops rail engineering policies and standards; supports digital signalling deployment; manages senior stakeholders, budgets, teams, and engineering development programmes; and provides strategic technical leadership across rolling stock, safety, interoperability, communications, and supply chain activities.

Owns end-to-end product and engineering strategy for Mews' Back of House domain. Leads globally distributed engineering teams, builds the management structure, develops senior talent, and improves reliability, performance, and technical debt without disrupting delivery. Determines where AI should be integrated into the product and ships AI-driven improvements. Requires VP-level product and engineering ownership, SaaS scaling experience, strong people leadership, and hands-on experience shipping AI as a core product capability.

Leads global AI-first MarTech engineering strategy, architecture, governance, compliance, and delivery. Oversees scalable digital platforms, public-facing properties, GenAI applications, R&D, proof-of-concepts, and automated compliance capabilities. Builds and mentors a global team of engineering and AI professionals, manages vendors, and partners with marketing, business, cloud, security, privacy, infrastructure, and legal stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance digital experiences.

Leads the operational integrity, reliability, security, and continual improvement of enterprise connectivity platforms across stores, logistics sites, datacentres, and Azure environments. Drives automation, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and Site Reliability Engineering practices. Provides technical leadership, oversees outsourced NOC services and managed partners, governs supplier performance, and improves service quality and operational efficiency through proactive engineering.

Executive engineering leader responsible for defining enterprise-wide software engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, roadmaps, and delivery-performance measures. The role drives modern CI/CD, automation, AI adoption, engineering excellence, and safer, faster software delivery. It combines strategic thought leadership with targeted proofs of concept, market and supplier evaluation, and close collaboration with technology executives and engineering teams.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.